"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words" — Titus Maccius Plautus

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Source: Sartor Resartus (1836)

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Titus Maccius Plautus Quote